Monster Mash: MOCA's Jeffrey Deitch on new Vanity Fair power list; art spared in fire at Phillips Collection in Washington
| Museum fire: All artworks at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., are said to be undamaged after smoke from a fire spread throughout the building Thursday. Joining the elite: Jeffrey Deitch, MOCA's new director, ranks No. 10 on Vanity Fair's... |
Judith Ivey-Amanda Wingfield — a well-prepared role
| The last time Judith Ivey played a Tennessee Williams role was opposite Karl Malden. As introductions to playwrights go, it’s hard to imagine many more authoritative guides than a man who had famously shared the stage with Jessica Tandy, Marlon... |
MOCA to take over city-owned Municipal Art Gallery in Hollywood?
| L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art is interested in running the city-owned Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in Hollywood’s Barnsdall Park, as the cash-starved city government tries to outsource eight arts facilities in hopes of saving about $1.3 million a year.... |
Theater review: 'Neighbors' at the Matrix Theatre
| Just when you thought beer summits were so 2009, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ bracing satire “Neighbors,” now at the Matrix Theatre, turns up to mess with your lazy liberal self. Call it Stepford meets Stepin Fetchit: Richard (Derek Webster), an African American... |
Drinking with Tom Marioni, Ed Ruscha and friends at the Hammer Museum
| The San Francisco artist Tom Marioni has a motto that has served him well: The act of drinking beer with friends is the highest form of art. It’s the subtitle of his 2003 memoir: “Beer, Art and Philosophy.” It’s the... |
L.A. to host annual theater convention
| L.A. audiences may find local theaters a bit more crowded than usual next June. That's because Theatre Communications Group, the nation's premier research, advocacy and organizing entity for the American theater, has chosen Los Angeles to host its 21st annual... |
NBC's 'Law & Order: Los Angeles' could be a boon to local stage actors
| It’s not every TV series that can count itself a close friend of struggling theater actors. During its 20-year run, NBC's “Law & Order” provided countless New York stage actors with a paycheck, employing them in bit parts, supporting roles... |
What is a masterpiece anyway?
| What’s a masterpiece?Laurent Le Bon, director of the Centre Pompidou-Metz, says he doesn’t know. But that’s the central question posed by the new museum’s inaugural exhibition, “Chefs-d’oeuvre?” The Pompidou Center, a Parisian cultural powerhouse, built the satellite in Metz to... |
Critic's Notebook: Reviving forgotten composers on CD
| When it comes to the arts, summer in the city is a time for timidity, especially when we venture out of doors. Classical music audiences are expected to go to places like the Hollywood Bowl to hear what we already... |
Monster Mash: Feud breaks out over 'Love Never Dies' musical; archaeologists attack BP plans
| -- Backstage drama: A feud has broken out between Andrew Lloyd Webber and the backers of "Love Never Dies," the sequel to "The Phantom of the Opera." (New York Post) -- Warning bell: Archaeologists are criticizing BP's drilling plans in... |
L.A.'s Cornerstone Theatre among NEA playwrighting grant recipients
| The National Endowment for the Arts announced Thursday its recipients of the New Play Development Program’s Distinguished New Play grants. Among the five winners is the Los Angeles-based Cornerstone Theatre Company, for its development of "The West Hollywood Musical" by... |
The shifting, architectural art of Steve Roden
| Winding through a studio filled with collections of curious objects — midcentury ceramics, vintage design magazines, Victorian-era photographs — Steve Roden pauses before a small, rather plain architectural drawing: his most prized possession, he says, by a man he considers... |
Music review: 'Candide' at the Hollywood Bowl
| "Candide" -- failed book by Lillian Hellman, delicious lyrics by Richard Wilbur, inspired score by Leonard Bernstein -- opens on Dec. 1, 1956, in New York and closes two months later after 73 performances. Broadway applies the f-word. A flop?... |
Key expert jumps ship, says garage sale pictures aren't by Ansel Adams after all
| An art expert whose opinion backed Rick Norsigian's claim that he owns a "lost" trove of pictures by Ansel Adams now says they aren’t Adams’ work after all. What’s more, Robert C. Moeller III, one of just two Norsigian experts... |
Secrets of the set: bamboo skewers and recycled paper at Boston Court
| It was all done with bamboo skewers, recycling and free pizza. The ambitious set of “The Good Book of Pedantry and Wonder,” a play about the struggle to compile the Oxford English Dictionary, is itself a minor marvel. The co-production... |
Jim Parrack goes from 'True Blood' to Edmund White's 'Terre Haute'
| Fans of HBO's "True Blood" know actor Jim Parrack for his supporting role as Hoyt Fortenberry, the lumbering, socially awkward love interest of vampirette Jessica Hamby (Deborah Ann Woll). The cast is currently in between seasons 3 and 4, which... |
Brendan Fraser, Jennifer Coolidge heading to Broadway in 'Elling'
| They may be better known as George of the Jungle and Stifler's mom, respectively, but this fall, Brendan Fraser and Jennifer Coolidge will be heading to Broadway to star in "Elling," a new play based on a series of Norwegian... |
Vote: Is Jackie Evancho changing her sound?
| In the non-surprise of the summer, Jackie Evancho made it through to the top 10 on NBC's "America's Got Talent" Wednesday night. Earlier this week when Evancho inspired us to look at how common it is for children to emulate... |
Theater review: ‘Titus Redux’ at the Kirk Douglas Theatre
| “Titus Andronicus” may well have been the most formulaic of Shakespeare’s plays, but anyone expecting a by-the-book revenge tragedy in “Titus Redux” is in for some shell shock. For starters, forget the whole revenge thing. Director John Farmanesh-Bocca’s intense, highly... |
Theater review: 'The Clean House' at International City Theatre
| A search for the perfect joke -- in untranslated Portuguese -- catalyzes the whimsy and gravitas of "The Clean House." Sarah Ruhl's disarming Pulitzer finalist enjoys a tidily affecting production at International City Theatre. Increasingly a regional theater fixture since... |
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